Women and 'Value' in Jane Austen's Novels

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Jane Austen¿s minor female characters expose the economic and social realties of British women in the long eighteenth century and reflect the conflict between intrinsic and expressed value within the evolving marketplace, where fluctuations and fictions inherent in the economic and moral value structures are exposed. Just as the newly-minted paper money was struggling to express its value, so do Austen¿s minor female characters struggle to assert their intrinsic value within a marketplace that expresses their worth as bearers of dowries. Austen¿s minor female characters expose the plight of women who settle for transactional marriages, become speculators and predators, or become superfluous women who have left the marriage market and battle for personal significance and existence. These characters illustrate the ambiguity of value within the marriage market economy, exposing women¿s limited choices. This book employs a socio-historical framework, considering the rise of a competitive consumer economy juxtaposed with affective individualism.

Über den Autor

Lynda A. Hall is Assistant Professor of English at Chapman University, California, USA. She received her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University and teaches courses in Jane Austen, the English Gothic novel, literature and terror. She has published several papers about Austen and has spoken at regional, national, and international conferences.

Zusammenfassung

Shines a spotlight on the supporting cast of female characters in Jane Austen's novels

Provides rich connections to the emerging industrial culture of the late eighteenth century

Reveals the grim reality of a woman's lot in early nineteenth-century Britain and underscore the dark futures that could have faced heroines like Elizabeth Bennett or Anne Elliot

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	x 225 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319844787
ISBN-10:	3319844784
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hall, Lynda A.
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2017
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Lynda A. Hall
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.07.2018
Gewicht:	0,311 kg